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HIT: Give Ken Williams points for honesty. Of the Sox's current straits, he said, "It's nothing a 15-game winning streak wouldn't cure."
HIT: Ozzie Guillen's quote O' the day: "We always think we're going to turn the corner, but all of a sudden, the corner's a U-turn."
HIT: Congratulations to Angel Pagan, who by turning the wrong way, stumbling and making the catch while lying on his stomach, turned a routine Paul Konerko fly ball into a highlight-reel grab.
HIT: And to Pagan for running into Juan Uribe at second base, thus rendering moot all the subsequent blundering by Cubs baserunners on what should have been a two-run double in the top of the eighth, courtesy of a fortuitous obstruction call.
ERROR: The above play resulted in Ozzie Guillen's ejection and Joey Cora's futile effort to protest the game, of which crew chief Joe West said, "He went out there with a pocket knife
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text: Philosophy, Science and Religion mark three of the most fundamental modes of thinking about the world and our place in it. Are these modes incompatible? Put another way: is the intellectually responsible thing to do to 'pick sides' and identify with one of these approaches at the exclusion of others? Or, are they complementary or mutually supportive? As is typical of questions of such magnitude, the devil is in the details. For example, it is important to work out what is really distinctive about each of these ways of inquiring about the world. In order to gain some clarity here, we'll be investigating what some of the current leading thinkers in philosophy, science and religion are actually doing. This course, entitled 'Philosophy and Religion', is the second of three related courses in our Philosophy, Science and Religion Online series, and in this course we will ask important questions about the age-old debate between science and religion, such as: • What kind of conflicts are there between religion and science? • Does current cognitive science of religion effectively explain away God? • If there is a God who has made us so that we can know him, why do some people not believe? • Is belief in science also a kind of fundamentalism? • What makes us good at getting, giving, or sharing, knowledge? Is this different when it is religious knowledge? The first course in the Philosophy, Science and Religion series, 'Science and Philosophy' was launched early in 2017 and you can sign up to it at any time. The third course —'Religion and Science'—will be launched early in 2018. Completing all three courses will give you a broader understanding of this fascinating topic. Look for: • Philosophy, Science and Religion I: Science and Philosophy https://www.coursera.org/learn/philosophy-science-religion-1/ • Philosophy, Science and Religion III: Religion and Science Upon successful completion of all three courses, students will: (1) Understand the main parameters at stake in the current debate between science and religion. (2) Have some familiarity with the relevant areas of science that feature in the debate—including cosmology, evolution, and the neurosciences—and will have begun to engage with them conceptually. (3) Have encountered key philosophical approaches to the interface between science and religion, and will have had the opportunity to engage them in practice. (4) Have embarked constructively in cross-disciplinary conversations. (5) Have demonstrated an openness to personal growth through a commitment to dialogue across intellectual and spiritual boundaries. You can also follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/EdiPhilOnline and you can follow the hashtag #psrmooc


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There is a whirring, whining presence in my dining room. I notice it every time I walk through. Every day, it sucks down about one full kilowatt-hour of electricity. In a year, it will consume almost $100 worth of juice—and that's on top of the $274 it costs to buy the box in the first place. Oh, and it's hot, too. If I moved it into my office and could stand the noise, I could keep a cup of coffee comfortably warm on top of the thing. Why on earth would anyone want such a disagreeable little machine in their home?
The short answer: every day, that machine magically generates something like $20 in bitcoins.
The BFL miner: A video intro
A newbie and his miner
Ars Senior Business Editor Cyrus Farivar tapped me on the shoulder a few weeks back with a proposition. "I've got a Butterfly Labs Bitcoin mining box," he explained. "There aren't that many in the wild right now. I'm working on a story about the company, but I'm about to go on vacation. Do you want to see if you can get the thing working while I'm out?"
I was intrigued. Bitcoin? That's the electronic currency that's quickly rocketed from lame nerd project to ludicrously valuable hot topic, right? I didn't know a lot about the world of Bitcoin other than the fact that "mining" them involved people building custom PCs with tons of video cards to handle the math. I certainly didn't know how to "mine" bitcoins myself or what to do with the things once I had them. I just knew that people eventually try to trade them in for cash somehow (but how to do that was also a total mystery).
And yet here was the opportunity to take a piece of hardware I'd never heard of and see if I could use it to magically create some money out of nowhere. I told Cyrus to send me the Butterfly Labs miner. As he trekked off to Peru for his vacation, I settled in with the little black box.
Butterfly Labs is a company that has drawn a fair amount of controversy for what the Bitcoin community at large perceives as a string of broken promises. The company sells ASIC-based Bitcoin miners—machines that are built around customized chips that do nothing except compute SHA-256 hashes very quickly. Its smallest miner (the one I had to get working) is codenamed "Jalapeño" and computes a bit over five billion hashes per second (or 5GH/s). The problem is that Butterfly Labs started selling the machines long before it actually had a product to sell. It began taking paid-in-full preorders back in mid-2012, and thousands of customers opened their wallets for Bitcoin miners ranging from the small 5GH/s miner at $274 all the way up to the large 500Gh/s miner, which costs $22,484.
Butterfly Labs promised certain performance targets to customers—it initially felt confident that its application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs would deliver one billion hashes per second for every 1.1 watt of power consumed. This proved extremely optimistic. Hardware delivery slipped multiple times. Now, a full year later, the first few real live Butterfly Labs boxes are finally being shipped, though no small number (as many as 30) were sent to journalists to review rather than to paying customers.
But when the little black box showed up on my doorstep, I had no idea about the deep and extremely vocal Bitcoin community or the story behind Butterfly Labs. I didn't really even fully understand what the miner did. I simply knew that I wanted to get this thing working and make some money.
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The 5GH/s Jalapeño miner is a black rounded cube with a brushed metal finish. The only connectors on the exterior of the device are on the back: a mini-USB port for data and a power plug. Near the power plug are a series of small red LEDs that the device uses to tell you its status, though there was no documentation in the box to explain what the LEDs meant. The front of the cube contains another red LED to indicate power.
There are two sets of vents, one low on the front and the other high on the rear. The device's internal 80 mm fan draws cooler air up from the front through the fins of the large heat sink mounted on the ASIC chip. It expels the now-warm air out through the top vents.
After I unboxed the thing and took some photos, I was sort of stuck. I had no idea what to do with the little rounded-off cube.
Before I consulted the Internet for documentation, I tried briefly—and in vain—to see if I could make it work on my own. "I am a geek, and I work at Ars Technica, which is a major technology website of some renown," I thought. "I have built Web servers. I use, like, Linux and stuff. How hard can this really be?"
Too hard, apparently. Connecting it via USB to any of the computers I had handy didn't really cause anything to happen. The device showed up on the USB bus and identified itself, but it didn't do anything. I naively wondered if there was some kind of application I needed to download to "log on" to the device to get it mining.
I admitted defeat and consulted the Internet. Unfortunately, as I was to quickly learn, I was coming at the miner with a certain set of false assumptions. The BFL miner is a pretty simple device; it doesn't have an "interface" or a console or anything like that at all. It talks via serial-over-USB, and you do need an application running on your computer to actually do anything with it.
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The Situation of University Research
Posted by The Situationist Staff on May 22, 2008
Today's New York Times includes a terrific article, titled "At One University, Tobacco Money Is a Secret," by Alan Finder who describes how the tobacco industry continues to situationally manipulate the marketplace of ideas. We've excerpted a few excerpts from the story below.
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On campuses nationwide, professors and administrators have passionately debated whether their universities should accept money for research from tobacco companies. But not at Virginia Commonwealth University, a public institution in Richmond, Va.
That is largely because hardly any faculty members or students there know that there is something to debate — a contract with extremely restrictive terms that the university signed in 2006 to do research for Philip Morris USA, the nation's largest tobacco company and a unit of Altria Group.
The contract bars professors from publishing the results of their studies, or even talking about them, without Philip Morris's permission. If "a third party," including news organizations, asks about the agreement, university officials have to decline to comment and tell the company. Nearly all patent and other intellectual property rights go to the company, not the university or its professors.
"There is restrictive language in here," said Francis L. Macrina, Virginia Commonwealth's vice president for research, who acknowledged that many of the provisions violated the university's guidelines for industry-sponsored research. "In the end, it was language we thought we could agree to. It's a balancing act."
But the contract, a copy of which The New York Times obtained under the Virginia Freedom of Information law, is highly unusual and raises questions about how far universities will go in search of scarce research dollars to enhance their standing. It also brings a new dimension to the already divisive debate on many campuses over whether it is appropriate for universities to accept tobacco money for research.
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Philip Morris, based in Richmond, is a likely source for Virginia Commonwealth in its hunt for dollars from a finite number of corporations. Among tobacco companies, Philip Morris is the leader in investing in academic research. And for Virginia Commonwealth, expanding ties with its neighbor could produce other benefits like additional grants and support for other university functions.
About a dozen researchers and research ethicists from other universities were astonished at the restrictions in the contract, when they were told about it.
"When universities sign contracts with these covenants, they are basically giving up their ethos, compromising their values as a university," said Sheldon Krimsky, a professor at Tufts University who is an expert on corporate influence on medical research. "There should be no debate about having a sponsor with control over the publishing of results."
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About 15 public health and medical schools no longer accept donations from the tobacco industry, and many major research universities continue to do so only if guaranteed independence to carry out the research and publish the results.
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A tenured scientist at Virginia Commonwealth, who would not be interviewed for attribution because he said he feared retribution against his junior colleagues, called the contract's restrictions, especially the limitations on publication, "completely unacceptable in the research world."
For most of the decade, Philip Morris financed conventional research grants, using a scientific panel to select worthy research proposals from professors. The company granted independence to the professors whose work it sponsored and left them free to publish.
Even so, opponents of smoking opposed the grants, arguing that universities should not take money from tobacco companies because of the public health impact of smoking and what they viewed as the industry's misuse of scientific research.
Last fall, Philip Morris began phasing out this program to switch to developing new products, said Dr. Solana, the company vice president. Some of the new research will be conducted internally, he said, at a new company research center in Richmond, and some will be contracted out to universities and corporations case by case.
The restricted contract with Virginia Commonwealth, Dr. Solana said, was part of what he hopes will be a new and different relationship between the company and universities. But scientists said such restrictions — especially the constraints on publication and what university officials can say publicly — are contrary to the open discussion essential to university research.
"It's counter to the entire purpose and rationale of a university," said David Rosner, a professor of public health and history at Columbia University. "It's not a consulting company; it's not just another commercial firm.
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The entire article is here. For a sample of related Situationist posts, see "The company 'had no control or influence over the research' . . . .," "Deep Capture – Part VII," "Promoting Smoking through Situation," "Industry-Funded Research," "Industry-Funded Research – Part II," and "Captured Science."
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Unforgettable's Poppy Montgomery: I'm Just Glad We're Back On Again
Unforgettable returns Friday with the remaining six episodes of its second season, which kicked off last July. Seven weeks after Season 2 finishes airing, Season 3 will bow on Sunday, June 29. Got all that?
"Oh, my God! I can never keep [our schedule] straight!" Poppy Montgomery tells TVGuide.com with a laugh. "Carrie could, but I can't! Oh, we were on last summer. Now we're airing in April. Then we come back in June. And who knows after that. I'm just glad we're back on again!"
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The procedural has lived a chaotic existence since it originally premiered in 2011. CBS canceled it in May 2012 and resurrected it a month later for summer 2013. Production and airdates, however, were pushed back after Montgomery became pregnant. ("It was my fault!" she quips.) As a result of the delay, the show only aired half of its 13-episode Season 2 last summer before stepping aside for the fall schedule with no return date set at the time. But not unlike Carrie Wells' (Montgomery) impeccable memory, CBS didn't forget about it: The network renewed the show for a third season in the fall, ensuring that the rest of Season 2 would see the light of day at some point.
"I was only worried in the sense that it's all new for network television, this whole summer season, especially for CBS," Dylan Walsh says. "It's really hard to make episodes when you're not on TV, but now we know and we found out during [production] on Season 2 that we were picked up. I remarked to someone recently, in the past two years, we've only aired seven episodes. We have a following; they've kept us around. Now's our time. We're going to be on a lot in the next several months and it's great."
Co-creator and executive producer John Bellucci, though, says he was far more Zen about the show's then-cloudy future at the end of last summer. "After being canceled and completely dead, it takes any worry about that off the table," he says. "We've come back from the dead, so we've been up against it! We don't worry about it anymore."
Though he would've preferred to have finished airing Season 2 last year, Bellucci believes the spring return is well-suited for Unforgettable. As part of its Season 2 reboot, Carrie and Al (Walsh) moved from Queens to New York City after new character Eliot (Dallas Roberts) recruited them for his high-tech Major Crimes Unit. Gone was the dark, moody feel of Season 1 and in its place was a lighter, fun tone - not to mention standalone episodes. Because of the uncertain air schedule, producers opted against serialized story lines, putting the mystery of Carrie's sister's murder - the only thing she can't remember - on the backburner.
"I actually feel like for our type of show, standalone episodes make sense," Montgomery says. "It's not the kind of show where it's got such a soap opera-style throughline that you would have to watch intensely in order to follow it. There's no cliff-hanger at the end of this season because of my pregnancy. That messed with everything! It was all a rush to get it done."
It'll be a different story in Season 3 though. Taking advantage of the early pick-up, new showrunner Ed Decter is planning longer arcs, including fanning the flames of Carrie and Al's will-they-won't-they-again tension. On Friday's episode, the two pose as a fake married couple for a case, but there won't be much movement until the Season 3 premiere, when Boris Kodjoe debuts as Secret Service Agent Benjamin Hernandez, and sparks fly between him and Carrie. "I have two of the most gorgeous men in the world. I'm happy. We're doing good in Season 3," Mongtomery says.
"When we all started talking about Season 3, we really wanted turn up the heat between Carrie and Al and [talk about] how to manage that," Decter says. "Part of that connective tissue was putting people in between them and seeing what happens with their relationship with Boris coming in. We have some surprises for Al too. There's a woman he becomes interested in and there's some big drama brewing."
Al is, of course, is not too happy about Hernandez's arrival, as Al feels ready for a relationship, but Carrie does not. "Have you seen Boris? He's the most beautiful man on the planet!" Walsh says with a laugh. "That's what we couldn't do in Season 2 where we were stuck. We needed a foil to come in and get in the way of Carrie and Al. ... She doesn't trust that they can be more than professional partners and Boris comes in. It puts us back in a love triangle with something at stake and let's see what happens."
One thing that still won't be addressed though? Rachel's murder. It was briefly touched upon in the Season 2 premiere to indicate that Carrie is not completely hung up on it, but will remain dormant for the foreseeable future.
"We like the idea of it being there and being an important part of Carrie's character," Decter says. "We're not sure if we really want to wrap it up. We put it in a middle wrap-up in the Season 1 finale. It took some of the emotional fire behind it out. She could live with it. It was also heavy and didn't fit with the new tone of the show. We want to solve it for the fans who've been with us since the beginning, and we have lots of good idea for it, but we also feel like it would be a really good crescendo at a certain moment and we want to do a lot of episodes before we hit that crescendo."
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Unforgettable has not been renewed for a fourth season yet and CBS has not given any indication to producers if it would remain a summer show going forward. Walsh believes the show is "built better for the fall," but he, along with everyone else, doesn't mind where the show ultimately ends up as long as it ends up on the air. "There's a universe where we'd be delighted to do well enough and get back on the fall schedule," Bellucci says. "But we like the summer schedule. We're in a new wave of summer programming. It's also much more humane making 13 episodes."
Adds Montgomery: "Nothing would surprise me. It depends on how we do [on Fridays] too, I guess. Hopefully all of our fans would find us in April and in June. My only rule right now is that I make no predictions. Everything I've predicted for this show has been the opposite!"
Unforgettable airs Fridays at 8/7c on CBS.
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A vulnerability in the ColdFusion Web server platform, reported by Adobe less than a week ago, has apparently been in the wild for almost a month and has allowed the hacking of at least one company website, exposing customer data. Yesterday, it was revealed that the virtual server hosting company Linode had been the victim of a multi-day breach that allowed hackers to gain access to customer records.
The breach was made possible by a vulnerability in Adobe's ColdFusion server platform that could, according to Adobe, "be exploited to impersonate an authenticated user." A patch had been issued for the vulnerability on April 9 and was rated as priority "2" and "important." Those ratings placed it at a step down from the most critical, indicating that there were no known exploits at the time the patch was issued but that data was at risk. Adobe credited "an anonymous security researcher," with discovering the vulnerability.
But according to IRC conversation including one of the alleged hackers of the site, Linode's site had been compromised for weeks before its discovery. That revelation leaves open the possibility that other ColdFusion sites have been compromised as hackers sought out targets to use the exploit on.
ColdFusion is a Java-based Web server platform that interprets its own proprietary markup language in page code to access server-side application components and data. It has had a large installed base in the government sector and other markets, but its market share has been in decline for some time, and the technology has seen little change since 2009. In 2011, Adobe announced it was moving the whole of ColdFusion development to India.
The element attacked is its user authentication component, cflogin. In March, a ColdFusion user reported encountering errors in cflogin he believed were because of attempted hack attacks. "I've now seen cflogin throw an error twice now with bad input at—I believe—the cookie level," he reported to Adobe's bug tracker.
By exploiting the login vulnerability, the hackers were able to gain access to the Linode server itself and to the site's code. Through the code, they were able to obtain the login credentials to Linode's database and stole customer data that included hashed passwords, encrypted credit card data, and the unencrypted last four digits of credit cards used for verification purposes. Customer keys for Linode's deployment and management APIs were also exposed.
Linode has expired those keys and is re-issuing them. Linode representatives said in a blog post that it has "no evidence decrypted credit card numbers were obtained" and added that the encryption key for credit card data was not stored on the server and was "not guessable, sufficiently long and complex, not based on dictionary words, and not stored anywhere but in our heads."
Ars has contacted Linode for comment on the breach, but a spokesperson said it may be several days before the company will respond with further information.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a second round of Reinvent the Toilet Challenge grants totaling nearly US$ 3.4 million. The announcement took place on 14 August during the Reinvent the Toilet Fair in Seattle, USA (see also the earlier post Winners of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge).
Winning grants:
Cranfield University This nearly US$ 810,000 grant will help develop a prototype toilet that removes water from human waste and vaporizes it using a hand-operated vacuum pump and a unique membrane system. The remaining solids are turned into fuel that can also be used as fertilizer. The water vapor is condensed and can be used for washing, or irrigation. Read Cranfield University's press release.
Contact: Fiona Siebrits/ +44 (0) 1234 758040 / email@example.com
Eram Scientific Solutions Private Limited A grant of more than US$ 450,000 will make public toilets more accessible to the urban poor via the eco-friendly and hygienic "eToilet." Read earlier posts about Eram's E-Toilet Delight here and here.
Contact: Manohar Varghese / +91 9747060700 / email@example.com
RTI International This US$ 1.3 million grant will fund the development of a self-contained toilet system that disinfects liquid waste and turns solid waste into fuel or electricity through a revolutionary new biomass energy conversion unit. For more info read RT'I's press release
Contact: Lisa Bistreich-Wolfe / +1 919.316.3596 / firstname.lastname@example.com
University of Colorado Boulder A nearly US$ 780,000 grant will help develop a solar toilet that uses concentrated sunlight, directed and focused with a solar dish and concentrator, to disinfect liquid-solid waste and produce biological charcoal (biochar) that can be used as a replacement for wood charcoal or chemical fertilizers. Read the University's press release.
Contact: Karl Linden / +1 303 302 0188/ Carol Rowe / +1 303 492 7426 / email@example.com
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Couple advertises home as 'slightly haunted'
DUNMORE, Pa. — Between the mysteriously banging doors, the odd noises coming from the basement, and the persistent feeling that someone is standing behind them, homeowners Gregory and Sandi Leeson are thoroughly creeped out by their 113-year-old Victorian.
So when they put the house in northeastern Pennsylvania up for sale last month, they advertised it as "slightly haunted."
Then things got REALLY weird.
There were calls from ghost hunters. An open house attracted lots of curiosity seekers, but no legitimate buyers. And a former resident came out of the woodwork to tell the couple that when he was a kid, he found a human skull in the basement — the same basement whose door Sandi Leeson once barricaded because she swore she could hear the clicking of a cigarette lighter emanating from the subterranean depths.
It's enough to make her husband wonder whether he did the right thing when he playfully wrote about the home's spooky charms:
"Slightly haunted. Nothing serious, though," says the listing on Zillow's real-estate site. It goes on to describe 3:13 a.m. screams and "the occasional ghastly visage" in the bathroom mirror.
The listing attracted local and national media attention. Now the Leesons just need an actual buyer for the four-bedroom home, on the market for $144,000.
"I tried to word it with a little bit of a sense of humor," says Greg Leeson, a 35-year-old who works in information technology, but "I don't think it has helped with marketing. We're not really getting very many interested buyers. We're getting a lot of nonsense people."
Spring should bring more traffic. But if it doesn't sell, Leeson said they might consider renting it out — by the night — to folks looking for spooky thrills.
While Leeson concedes the home has a "creepy vibe," he doesn't believe in ghosts.
And his wife?
"I definitely think there's a spirit or a ghost in the house, just from my personal experiences," she said.


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What I found when I went through my various TBRs is how excited I am to read a lot of the books on my TBR, which was a pleasant surprise, so even though I went through a huge amount of my TBR, I didn't end up deleting as much as I expected. (I mostly justified this by the fact it usually takes quite a few mentions before a book ends up there in the first place)
I'm not including books I left on, because obviously I don't need to be convinced to read them, but you know, I'm always amenable to persuasion when it comes to expanding my TBR, which totally defeats the whole point of this exercise 😉
Here's the ones I removed without a second thought:
Like I said, I didn't give that much thought to removing those, I simply reread the synopses and wasn't too enamoured. If you've read any of the above and you were blown away, then do scream at me in the comments something to the effect of *YOU'RE MAKING A HUGE MISTAKE!*. Otherwise, let's move onto the ones I was on the fence about:
Soundless– I've seen way too many negative reviews of this and I've had a million chances to read this book… it's just not going to happen.
Follow Me Down– I do still want to check out the author, but preferably with a more popular book.
The Boy Book– I think I've got to face facts, as much as I was pleasantly surprised by the first one, I don't see myself finishing the series ten years later. Besides, there's newer, shinier books by the same author that I have on my kindle I'd much rather read.
Gathering Blue– this is the weirdest one to take off the TBR, considering the fact that I really liked the Giver. And yet, I'm not feeling the rest of the series anymore and I rarely read dystopia as it is, so I'm gonna leave it.
Ghost Hunter– I frickin' loved this series when I was younger and I so wanted to finish it. Sadly, I lost track of the books coming out and I've forgotten most of what happened by now. Finishing the series would mean rereading all the others and I don't see that happening. If one day I decide to reread it, I'll add this to my tbr again.
Exit Unicorns– how cool is that title?! Unfortunately, even the place I originally saw this book wasn't entirely positive about the book and I really haven't seen anything good about it to justify reading it (aside from that being one of my favourite titles ever)
All the Lies We Tell– well, I was on the fence about this annnd then I saw the reviews- it's a romance about a woman hooking up with her brother-in-law- NO THANKS.
The Love Interest– I was curious when I first heard about this- a book playing the love triangle trope sounds fun at least. Since it's been released though, I've only seen reviews wavering between meh and ugh.
All the Wind in the World– admittedly I wavered over this one just because the cover is beautiful. I just haven't heard enough about it- so maybe someday.
Trust Me, I'm Lying– honestly, it just doesn't appeal that much. I also don't know anyone that's read it and don't fancy being the guinea pig.
Okay- I'll admit it, 20 is not a huge amount to delete from my TBR. BUT like I said, I realised there were just *a lot* of books I wanted to read when I did this! Have you tried reducing your TBR? How successful was it? And are there any books on here I should give a second look? Let me know in the comments!


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Last week, Washington, DC federal judge Beryl Howell ruled on three mass file-sharing lawsuits. Judges in Texas, West Virginia, and Illinois had all ruled recently that such lawsuits were defective in various ways, but Howell gave her cases the green light; attorneys could use the federal courts to sue thousands of people at once and then issue mass subpoenas to Internet providers. Yes, issues of "joinder" and "jurisdiction" would no doubt arise later, but the initial mass unmasking of alleged file-swappers was legitimate.
Howell isn't the only judge to believe this, but her important ruling is especially interesting because of Howell's previous work: lobbying for the recording industry during the time period when the RIAA was engaged in its own campaign of mass lawsuits against individuals.
The news, first reported in a piece at TorrentFreak, nicely illustrates the revolving door between government and industry. And it reminds us just how complicated questions of influence can be.
The door keeps revolving
Howell has had a long career in law enforcement. She was an assistant US attorney in New York during the early 1990s and oversaw "numerous wiretap investigations and conducted lengthy grand jury investigations, including cases against the leadership of the Chinatown Flying Dragons gang, extortion cases resulting in the convictions of twenty-nine New York City building inspectors, and a money laundering case resulting in the seizure of $19 million in cash narcotics proceeds," according to her bio.
She then moved to the Senate, where she served as general counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee under Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who has close ties to the copyright industries (Leahy is one of the big backers of the COICA Web censorship law that he guarantees will be passed later this year.)
There, Howell helped to write CALEA (the law extending wiretap powers to the Internet) along with the No Electronic Theft Act (providing tougher penalties for online copyright crimes), the DMCA (making it illegal to break or bypass DRM, even if you want to rip a movie from a DVD you own to your iPod), and the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Deterrence Act.
She then moved into private life at Stroz Friedberg, where she began lobbying for the RIAA, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Between 2004-2009, Howell was the only listed lobbyist at the firm; the RIAA was her exclusive lobbying client for most of that time. A lobbyist disclosure form describes her as working on "legislation concerning copyright laws as applied to digital music"—which she would be well-placed to do, having previously helped to write such laws.
Howell made some small donations to Barack Obama. When Obama won the presidency, for instance, Howell gave $327 to help fund inaugural events in DC.
In 2010, the Obama administration tapped her to move back into government, serving as a federal judge. In December, she was installed in the DC District Court, where the US Copyright Group filed most of its mass P2P lawsuits. Howell took on several of the cases.
A respected legal mind, Howell's published work focuses more on privacy, government surveillance, and the PATRIOT Act. Back in 2004, she won a "First Amendment Award" from the Society for Professional Journalists for her work expanding the Freedom of Information Act. She also serves on the US Sentencing Commission since being appointed by George W. Bush, helping to craft appropriate sentencing guidelines for use by US judges.
And she's currently listed as a "Board Alum" for the Center for Democracy & Technology, which generally stands up for Internet privacy, opposes COICA in it current form, and objected to Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
Howell's work at Stroz Friedberg also went well beyond RIAA lobbying; the FBI even gave her a "Director's Award" during her time at Stroz Friedberg for her "valuable contributions" to a case the Bureau investigated.
Howell isn't some one-dimensional industry shill; she was a philosophy major at Bryn Mawr, has three kids, and her husband works as a producer for National Geographic Television & Film. But lobbying money tends to raise questions when the lobbyists move back into public life.
Recusal conditions
Many judges were previously lawyers, and they are not required to recuse themselves from areas in which they previously litigated or lobbied unless they meet certain conditions. Those conditions are spelled out in Title 28, part I, chapter 21, section 455 of the US Code:
(a) Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.
(b) He shall also disqualify himself in the following circumstances:
(1) Where he has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party, or personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding;
(2) Where in private practice he served as lawyer in the matter in controversy, or a lawyer with whom he previously practiced law served during such association as a lawyer concerning the matter, or the judge or such lawyer has been a material witness concerning it;
(3) Where he has served in governmental employment and in such capacity participated as counsel, adviser or material witness concerning the proceeding or expressed an opinion concerning the merits of the particular case in controversy;
(4) He knows that he, individually or as a fiduciary, or his spouse or minor child residing in his household, has a financial interest in the subject matter in controversy or in a party to the proceeding, or any other interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding;
Having worked with the RIAA rather than the small movie producers bringing the current suits, and having worked for the industry on legislation rather than litigation, Howell does not appear to have any direct stake in these particular cases. And all judges come to their work with a personal perspective and a cast of mind.
Still, years of paid work for particular corporate interests could certainly be perceived as having undue influence on a judge's approach. For instance, Howell's recent ruling was concerned that P2P lawyers simply couldn't afford lawsuits if they had to file their $350 cases against every IP address separately. "It is highly unlikely that the plaintiffs could protect their copyright in a cost-effective manner," she noted.
But for other judges, this was precisely the point: mass P2P lawsuits were an inappropriate attempt to go to court and still save some cash, at the expense of due process. Federal judge Milton Shadur in Chicago recently shut down a mass lawsuit on behalf of the film Cowgirl Creampie, saying, "No predicate has been shown for thus combining 300 separate actions on the cheap. If CP had sued the 300 claimed infringers separately for their discrete infringements, the filing fees alone would have aggregated $105,000 rather than $350."
Howell's different perspective is defensible on its merits—but was it unduly influenced by her past as a copyright lobbyist? Does that matter? And where do we draw the line when it comes to a judge's history?
Howell's case is only one specific example of a much larger issue, one that always revolves around people working for corporations, entering government to make law or policy relating to those corporations, and then returning to private life (and perhaps to those same corporations). This was a concern early in the Obama administration when it appointed several litigators with extensive RIAA work to key posts in the Department of Justice. Critics complained, but others noted that most lawyers work with a wide range of clients and on a host of issues.
That doesn't stop the criticism. Boing Boing noted early this year that the new US Solicitor General would be Tom Verrilli, "a notorious entertainment industry lawyer" who "masterminded the case against Grokster." (See a defense of this practice and comments on why it doesn't represent a government "infiltration.")
In the meantime, that revolving door keeps revolving—and it creates problems of perception, if nothing else.


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I have always been a spiritual person and always wanted to know if there was a god or not. In Zen, there doesnt seem to be much mention one way or the other. There are, to be sure, some references to Gods and Buddhas and some of the Indian deities like Indra, but no real sense of abiding faith in the existence or lack of existence of a Creator Being.No gods, no epic heroes nor clouded view of the world.
Reality is what we must learn to see, even if it's hurtful and at the same time beautiful.
That's why I am in Zen.
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In looking at things, I have to believe in the existence of some form of god. And I mean study on things from Intelligent Design to the historicity of Jesus and such, all the way to the theory of the Big Bang and how the universe, matter and anti-matter were formed. I mean, how could everything in this world function in such complete synchronicity without a plan or design of some sort? Theres too much that is in complete and perfect harmony to say, eh, simple chance.
Personally, and Id like to hear from others, I do believe in a God, but more in line with the Sikh version of Waheguru (interesting that the most profound and equitable religions have come from the area around India) as a being far beyond my ken and understanding. Now the Sikhs are extremely devout and I dont know that that type of all consuming faith should be the reason or modality of life why give us free will and the ability to make choices and decisions if all we were supposed to do was live every second in abject worship?
But in the end, God or No God, there should be no difference in my mind, in my practice. I dont sit for God or Buddha or myself or you. I sit for the you that is me and the god that is Buddha and the Buddha that is us all. I think that such is a good view.
So, do you suppose that the lack of a God-head in our Way is the result of a lack of belief that there could be a supreme being? Or do you think that it is because the greatest of our teachers said, God, no-God, heaven, hell. Practice, drink your tea, wash your cup, and save the many beings. Live life, be in every moment, and experience this world through a clarity that does not require God to be, does not refute in Gods existence, and is in accord with the Precepts. God or No-God, who could find fault in that?


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October 15th, 2012
Kids who sleep more cope better
Sleepy school children make crabby classmates, while students who get plenty of sleep are better behaved, according to a new study published this week in the journal Pediatrics.
"Extending sleep opens the door to an effective, feasible way to improve children's health and performance," says study author Reut Gruber, director of the Attention Behavior and Sleep Lab at the Douglas Research Center in Quebec, Canada.
The study
Gruber and his colleagues wanted to find out if the behavior of elementary school children was affected by how much sleep they got. The researchers, with the permission of parents, enrolled 34 students ages 7 to 11 in the study. These were healthy kids who didn't have sleep problems or behavior or academic issues.
The results
Teachers - who didn't know the sleep status of the students - reported significant differences in how the children behaved and coped with everyday challenges. Students who were sleep-deprived not only seemed overly tired, but were more impulsive and irritable than their well-rested classmates. They were quick to cry, lose their tempers or get frustrated.
The children who got plenty of sleep had a better handle on their emotions and were more alert in class.
Sleep experts say these results make sense and provide more evidence about the importance of sleep.
"We know that sleep deprivation can affect memory, creativity, verbal creativity and even things like judgment and motivation and being (engaged) in the classroom," explains Dr. Judith Owens, director of sleep medicine at Children's National Medical Center in Washington. "When you're sleepy, (being engaged) isn't going to happen."
And when children have trouble coping with day-to-day situations, Owens adds, this can affect a child's relationship with teachers, as well as their success in school, social skills and the ability to get along with peers.
Tips for parents
So how do you know if your child is getting enough sleep? Children in elementary school generally need between 10 to 11 hours each evening, but no two children are alike. Parents should look for clues, experts say.
"Kids in this age range should not be sleepy during the day," Owens says. "If the are falling asleep in the car or watching TV, that's a red flag."
Another way to gauge your child's sleep need is to pay attention to how much they sleep during school vacations, when they're sleeping without a time schedule. If they consistently sleep longer than on school nights, your child probably isn't getting enough sleep.
Take action
Parents can take steps to get their children off to bed at a reasonable hour.
- About a half hour before bedtime, have your kids start winding down - put down the electronic devices, turn off the TV and shut down the computer
"Consider that (sleep) is one of the building blocks of your child's health, well-being and academic success," Owens says. "It's equivalent to good nutrition, exercise and all the other things we try to foster and provide for our children. You've got to put sleep right up there at the top of the list."
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Top basketball prospect Andrew Wiggins will play his college basketball at Kansas.
The 6-foot-8 Toronto native signed a letter-of-intent today, choosing the Jayhawks over Kentucky, North Carolina and Florida State.
The ceremony ended the frenzied pursuit of the Huntington Prep star, who averaged 23.4 points and 11.2 rebounds per game this season.
Rather than turn his announcement into a spectacle, Wiggins wanted a private signing ceremony with family and friends where he attends classes at St. Joseph's Central Catholic High School in Huntington.
Initially rated as a 2014 prospect, Wiggins shot to the top of recruiting charts when he decided last October to reclassify into his original high school class of 2013. The four major recruiting services rated Wiggins as the No. 1 overall recruit.
Wiggins had kept quiet on his intentions. He had yet to even make a verbal commitment and delayed his signing until almost the very end — tomorrow is the deadline for recruits to sign with NCAA Division I schools.
Interest grew in recent weeks. As one fan told Wiggins in a Twitter post, "You're driving 4 schools and 4 fan bases absolutely insane."
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Posted by The Situationist Staff on December 21, 2010
From the Harvard Gazette:
The centuries-old "one-drop rule" assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle Berry.
So say Harvard University psychologists, who've found that we still tend to see biracials not as equal members of both parent groups, but as belonging more to their minority parent group. The research appears in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
"Many commentators have argued that the election of Barack Obama, and the increasing number of mixed-race people more broadly, will lead to a fundamental change in American race relations," says lead author Arnold K. Ho, a Ph.D. student in psychology at Harvard. "Our work challenges the interpretation of our first biracial president, and the growing number of mixed-race people in general, as signaling a color-blind America."
In the United States, the "one-drop rule" — also known as hypodescent — dates to a 1662 Virginia law on the treatment of mixed-race individuals. The legal notion of hypodescent has been upheld as recently as 1985, when a Louisiana court ruled that a woman with a black great-great-great-great-grandmother could not identify herself as "white" on her passport.
"One of the remarkable things about our research on hypodescent is what it tells us about the hierarchical nature of race relations in the United States," says co-author James Sidanius, professor of psychology and of African and African-American studies at Harvard. "Hypodescent against blacks remains a relatively powerful force within American society."
Ho and Sidanius, along with co-authors Mahzarin R. Banaji (Situationist Contributor) at Harvard and Daniel T. Levin at Vanderbilt University, say their work reflects the cultural entrenchment of America's traditional racial hierarchy, which assigns the highest status to whites, followed by Asians, with Latinos and blacks at the bottom.
Ho and colleagues presented subjects with computer-generated images of black-white and Asian-white individuals, as well as family trees showing different biracial permutations. They also asked people to report directly whether they perceived biracials to be more minority or white. By using multiple approaches, their work examined both conscious and unconscious perceptions of biracial individuals, presenting the most extensive empirical evidence to date on how they are perceived.
The researchers found, for example, that one-quarter-Asian individuals are consistently considered more white than one-quarter-black individuals, despite the fact that African Americans and European Americans share a substantial degree of genetic heritage.
Using face-morphing technology that presented a series of faces ranging from 5 percent white to 95 percent white, they also found that individuals who were a 50-50 mix of two races, either black-white or Asian-white, were almost never identified by study participants as white. Furthermore, on average, black-white biracials had to be 68 percent white before they were perceived as white; the comparable figure for Asian-white biracials was 63 percent.
"The United States is already a country of ethnic mixtures, but in the near future it will be even more so, and more so than any other country on earth," says Banaji, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard. "When we see in our data that our own minds are limited in the perception of those who are the products of two different ethnic groups, we recognize how far we have to go in order to have an objectively accurate and fair assessment of people. That's the challenge for modern minds."
The team found few differences in how whites and non-whites perceive biracial individuals, with both assigning them with equal frequency to lower-status groups. The researchers are conducting further studies to examine why Americans continue to associate biracials more with their minority parent group.
"The persistence of hypodescent serves to reinforce racial boundaries, rather than moving us toward a race-neutral society," Ho says.
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Arnold Ho is one of the confirmed presenters at the 2011 PLMS conference on "The Psychology of Inequality."
For a sample of related Situationist posts, see "Fifth Annual PLMS Conference – Save the Date," "Jim Sidanius 'Terror, Intergroup Violence, and the Law'," "The Palliative Function of Ideology," "The Blame Frame – Abstract," "The Motivated Situation of Inequality and Discrimination," "The Situation of Political and Religious Beliefs?," "Banaji & Greenwald on Edge – Part IV," "Why Race May Influence Us Even When We "Know" It Doesn't," "Wages Are Only Skin Deep – Abstract," "Colorblinded Wages – Abstract," "Shades of Fairness and the Marketing of Prejudice," and "Black History is Now."
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"I swear," said an exasperated Ronnie Jenkins, "this time, it wasn't leaves of three!"
I was sitting at Amigos, a Mexican joint with dollar tacos and half-priced margaritas in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with my friends Lee Means, Tommy Morrison and, of course, Ronnie Jenkins, who last year wiped his backside with poison ivy. The resulting rash spread from head to toe and lasted a full week, during which time Ronnie couldn't sleep and his then fiance (now wife), Julie, had the grim task of applying calamine lotion to all the worst spots. This was why no one, especially Tommy, could help themselves from poking fun at Ronnie, 26, short but stacked with lean muscle, and his inability to properly identify hazardous plants.
Tommy, 28, has an infectious laugh that complements his good-natured ribbing. He loves to remind people of their shortcomings, but is the first to point out his own. He relentlessly insisted that Ronnie had committed the same error today, and that Julie would be lathering his butt with calamine lotion in no time.
"I hate y'all," said Ronnie, slumping into his chair. We laughed.
Strategically situated on the Tennessee River, Chattanooga began as an industrial and mining city in the late 1800s. Around the mid-20th century, however, many industries folded and Chattanooga became a rundown backwater.By the 1990s, thanks to a booming economy, not to mention solidly intelligent urban-renewal efforts, Chattanooga thrived again. To this day, this centrally located city in the Smoky Mountains is one of the most sought-after places in the Southeast to live, especially for climbers. It's the combination of good food, kind folk and diverse climbing, a dozen lifetimes' worth of trad, sport and bouldering, that brings visitors here and makes them never want to leave.
Most devout boulderers will have at least heard of, if not climbed at, the crown jewels of the Southeast: Rocktown, Horse Pens 40 and Little Rock City. However, dozens of off-the-beaten-path zones around Chattanooga are just as good, if not better. Some of Chattanooga's best blocks can be found at Mowbray Mountain, Lookout Mountain, near the Dayton and Cumberland Trails, and especially at Laurel Falls.
An idyllic Tennessee state wilderness area, Laurel Falls is about an hour north of Chattanooga. As its name suggests, this bouldering zone showcases many waterfalls along a raging river. Laurel Falls is primarily known for its collection of brilliant sport routes, located on the rim of the gorge at Buzzard Point and Laurel Falls itself. This is the location of Pieta, the Southeast's first 5.14, climbed by Jeff Gruenberg in the late 1980s. But Laurel Falls also has great bouldering, with highball faces, splitter cracks, sharp aretes, steep caves and everything in between. Although recent developments have exhausted the most obvious lines near the parking area, new prizes can still be found deep in the gorge.
Chattanooga has no shortage of good rest- or rain-day diversions, including the Tennessee Aquarium, Ruby Falls and Rock City. Like any upbeat city, Chattanooga has an ample selection of bars and restaurants featuring quality live entertainment, though sometimes, as we found out one day at a downtown freak show, the presentation can be a bit unconventional. After the performers had finished eating light bulbs and hanging blocks from their nipples, they offered audience members the opportunity to staple dollar tips to their bodies. Julie Jenkins wanted to staple a bill to one masochist's forehead, but even he declined.
As I sipped my delicious tequila and lime juice beverage, and looked across the table at Ronnie, Lee and Tommy, I couldn't help but smile. Though we were all drawn to Chattanooga for its incredible and diverse climbing, it's the people, their humor, friendship and Southern hospitality, that draw me back. I felt fortunate to have become such great friends with a core group of climbers, who were willing to share their backyard treasures with me and now, with you.
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Spend any time at Laurel Falls and you will cross paths with Arthur Gothard, 60, a friendly Dayton local who has taken it upon himself to keep the trails clean and pristine. Gothard walks the trails with a garbage bag and gloves four times a week, picking up trash. He has been tending to his beloved backyard since the 1950s.
"I just like the woods," he says. "It's in my blood. Daniel Boone is my fifth great uncle. His sister married one of my ancestors."
When mining started in the region in the late 1800s, Gothard's grandfather worked for Dayton Coal and Iron. A railroad track used to run along the creek behind the classic problem White Noise, transporting ore to the wharves on the Tennessee River. Gothard says that many miners were killed in the field, and a lot of them were buried just above the bouldering area of Laurel Falls.
Thomas Montgomery Morrison is a former U.S. Navy-qualified diver and submarine electrician who committed six years of dedicated service to his country. Above deck and goofing off in the comforts of his home in Chattanooga, he takes a well-deserved break from maintaining turbine and motor generators, operating the electric plant, security swims, hull checks, sonar-equipment cleanings, and removing and installing ballast covers in freezing water.
Wendell Borne, 77, was born and raised in the pocket wilderness area around Laurel Falls. As a child he spent his days swimming in the rivers, catching bullfrogs, playing baseball with a sock and a piece of wood, trundling rocks off the mountainside, and even climbing rocks, evincing the timeless power of this rocky region that draws us climbers here today.
Despite his fond memories, life was tough for Borne. His father, a coal miner, died from black lung in the early 1940s and his mother was suddenly burdened with raising 10 children on her own.
You just didn't have a lot to eat at times, Borne says. There were no fat people back then. You had overalls with patches, one pair of shoes full of holes. You'd go barefoot in the summer. It was hard to survive. Everybody was in the same boat.
Before his father died, Wendell, then just 12, worked alongside him. The mines were extremely dangerous, especially during explosions. He recalls one particular explosion that almost killed his father, blowing the shoes right off his feet. There was a black man that carried my daddy out, thinking it was his brother, Borne says. In the coal mines, you're so dirty, and it's so dark, race don't matter.
Wendell and his father would make approximately 50 cents to a dollar for each ton loaded and hauled out of the mine by a mule and cart. If they made $2, that was a good day's of work.
Kora Hancock, 97, was born in 1912 on Turkey Hill, near Dayton. She was the daughter of a master chair builder and started working beside him when she turned 14.
I was born and raised in hard times, but we were happy, Hancock says. Me and my brothers was always together. We climbed trees, go swimmin', play tag, git a lot whoopin' and go back and do it again! I dipped snuff. I would brush my teeth with black gum tree. brush out the snuff. Didn't know about toothbrushes, never seen a bar of hand soap. One time my daddy got me a little doll. If we got an apple and an orange we were rich!


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By now you have seen irate reactions on Twitter and other forums around the Internet, and you have probably also seen some comments by fans of Star Wars who welcome our new mouse-eared overlords. But the discussion about this topic is not simple. You can count on the Ars OpenForum to break down the analysis of this news in terms of business, film, and even philanthropy.
The thread "George Lucas sold my childhood for 4 billion dollars!" is the place where this discussion is taking place. The original poster is CannonFodder, who says the purchase was undervalued: "My first reaction: that seems a little low, especially for Disney. I can only imagine how THEY are going to push Star Wars merch on top of their own."
Crolis adds, "4 billion seems kind of cheap to me. If they make a trilogy, that is an easy 1 billion in revenues each at least."
More than a few readers have noted that the prospect of Disney being involved in the Star Wars franchise might mean that Pixar may have a hand at making a movie based on the mythology. Norrick says, "I would absolutely trust Pixar to make SW films that were worthy of the name. However, I have no faith that Disney would put SW in such capable hands."
tk421 thinks that George Lucas stepping away from the franchise will net good results: "Not having Lucas write the dialog and direct ('No, you're acting too much! Try to say that without any emotion!') would make it much, much better by default."
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CannonFodder doesn't agree with the idea of Whedon as auteur: "The problem with Joss Whedon for Star Wars is that so much of his characterization works of wry asides, Buffyspeak, and his reflexive, self-conscious toss-off. It works quite well for The Avengers, and it worked pretty well for Firefly (though I still say Tim Minear was the really vital portion of that duo—he kept Whedon honest.) For Star Wars? You need a real-deal true believer who is willing to sell the power of myth and the magic of the epic. I'll say it again: Brad Bird. Give that man a Star Wars movie, and we'll have gold...after the Before Sunrise trilogy, I'd even be interested in what Richard Linklater could do with a hundred million dollars and a galactic romance."
Fans of the original trilogy also see this acquisition as a new hope. Creox says, "The only thing I kept thinking when I first read this is an unaltered, remastered original trilogy may become reality...no?"
Genome mentions that the rights to the original films is not as simple as Disney taking over. "So Disney doesn't actually own all of Star Wars. They won't own the existing movies until 2020. And Fox owns A New Hope—forever and ever and ever and ever. Which means that any future releases of the OT has to be negotiated between Disney and Fox. So getting the untouched OT on Blu-ray is going to be a bit more tricky than just heading into the vault."
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Reuters' Chris Francescani has written a detailed article that paints a far more sympathetic portrait of George Zimmerman than most media coverage to date.
Francescani visited the Twin Lakes neighborhood in Sanford, Florida where Zimmerman shot unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in February.
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The George Zimmerman that Francescani describes is quite different from the "violent racist vigilante" that many have made him out to be.
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- Zimmerman grew up in a mixed-race household
- He was an altar boy at his Caltholic church from age 7-17
- He is bilingual
- After he finished high school, he studied for and got an insurance license
- In 2004, Zimmerman and a black friend opened an Allstate insurance office (which soon failed)
- Zimmerman's 2005 arrest for "resisting arrest, violence, and battery of an officer" occurred after he shoved an under-cover alcohol control agent at a bar when the agent was trying to arrest an underage friend of his (he was 22 at the time)
- Zimmerman married his wife, Shellie, in 2007. They rented a house in Twin Lakes. Twin Lakes is about 50% white, 20% Hispanic, and 20% black.
- In 2009, Zimmerman enrolled in Seminole State College
- In the fall of 2009, a pit bull broke free twice and once cornered Shellie in the Zimmermans' yard. George Zimmerman asked a police officer whether he should buy pepper spray. The cop told him pepper spray wasn't fast enough and recommended that he get a gun.
- By the summer of 2011, Twin Lakes "was experiencing a rash of burglaries and break-ins." In several of the cases, witnesses said the robbers were young black men
- In July 2011, a black teenager stole a bicycle off the Zimmermans' porch
- In August of 2011, a neighbor of the Zimmermans, Olivia Bertalan, was home during the day when two young black men entered her house. She hid in a room upstairs and called the police. When the police arrived, the two men, who had been trying to take a TV, fled. One of them ran through the Zimmermans' yard.
- After the break-in, George Zimmerman stopped by the Bertalans and gave Olivia a card with his name and number on it. He told her to visit his wife Shellie if she felt unsafe.
- The police recommended that Bertalan get a dog. She moved away instead. Zimmerman got a second dog--a Rottweiler.
- In September, several concerned residents of the neighborhood, including Zimmerman, asked the neighborhood association to create a neighborhood watch. Zimmerman was asked to run it.
- In the next month, two more houses in the neighborhood were robbed.
- A community newsletter reminded residents to report any crimes to the police and then call "George Zimmerman, our captain."
- On February 2, 2012, Zimmerman spotted a young black man looking into the windows of a neighbor's empty house. He called the police and said "I don't know what he's doing. I don't want to approach him, personally." The police sent a car, but by the time they arrived, the man was gone.
- On February 6th, another house was burglarized. Witnesses said two of the robbers were black teenagers. One, who had prior burglary convictions, was soon caught with a laptop stolen from the house.
- Two weeks later, Zimmerman spotted Travyon Martin and called the police. The last time he had done this, the suspect got away. This time, he disregarded police instructions and followed. A few minutes later, Martin was dead.
Again, none of this makes Trayvon Martin's death any less tragic. But doesn't it make you feel a bit differently about Zimmerman?
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